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...comfort with PDA, New England's puritanical roots must have rubbed off on me. I'll admit I was taken aback at seeing a couple having sex on Avenue Kleber en plein air on their street-facing balcony. For the first couple of weeks in Paris, each time I saw a couple kissing on the street, I was reminded of the morning a man shouted “Excusez moi!” and then “Regardez!” before proceeding to show me something I surely did not want to “regard...
...alerts about the situation, the word spread around campus quickly and electronically. Jason Piatt, a junior, was at McBride hall right next to Norris and couldn't get out of the building. "So," he says, "We're trying to figure out what was going on. One kid had a PDA [personal digital assistant] and got email and we found out there had been a shooting on the campus and they were investigating it. Then we got on our cell phones and we kind of picked it up live as it came to us in news feeds." Others saw the police...
...While PDA-wielding students still number in the minority, they are becoming a visible blight on campus. Students can be seen strolling around the yard with Treo “smartphones” clasped to their ears or in dining halls typing furiously on tiny QWERTY keyboards. University Health Services must be growing accustomed to bandaging bleeding cuticles...
...hectic, there’s little reason to think such devices necessary for most of us. While a particularly busy student in a leadership position—the Undergraduate Council President, for example—might derive some benefit from being able to manage his life with a PDA, that is not the case for most...
...feel compelled to follow suit, but as the number of PDAs on campus grows, that could change. In a worst-case scenario, PDAs, which can increase cell phone bills by up to $50 per month, will become ubiquitous symbols of privilege on campus. In other words, the PDA is on the cusp of becoming must-have, ivory tower “bling,” a nauseating prospect...